Dallas Eviction Risk: Moderate

The main counterweight is rent-regulation exposure at 1/10. Annualized rent equals 33% of average household income of $48,497, past the 30% affordability line, which thins the margin any screening standard has to work with.

Running cool, state political climate reads 1.5/10. Running hot, court filing pressure reads 8.4/10.

The poverty rate is 28%. Judgments in high-poverty tracts are collectible far less often than filing counts suggest. Severe burden reaches 16%. Those are renters paying half their income or more, and that is where non-payment filings originate.

Disability prevalence runs 43.6% against 31.5% nationally. It sits 1.3 points above the Dallas County average of 3.8. 42% of renter households cross the 30%-of-income line, below the Dallas County average of 47.9%.

Princeton's Eviction Lab logged 968 filings here across 18 tracked years. Filings peaked in 2012 at 17.9% of renter households. Average gross rent is $1,350, 8% below the Dallas average.

In a typical year about 10.1% of renter households face a filing. On the national scale it lands near the 63rd percentile of the 84,120 tracts scored.

Tract-level figures come from the ACS 5-year release and are rebuilt whenever that, the court-record feed, or the statutory ledger behind the score changes.